Migration Scholar Collaborative

The CBP Home app urges migrants to self-deport. However, given the external pressures that migrants face in their day-to-day lives, many self-deportations are not completely voluntary. MiSC scholar Adam Goodman's work on self-deportations provides us with a lens to see through these fallacies. 🧵⬇️

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How has a SCOTUS case from the 1800's profoundly effected the way deportation is viewed today?

Earlier today, ICE revealed that on April 28, 2026, Denny Adan Gonzalez (a 33-year old migrant from Cuba) died while in their custody. Gonzalez becomes the 18th person to have died in ICE detainment in 2026.

On April 12, 2026, Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt died in ICE custody. How can we use the works of MiSC scholars such as @austinkocher.com to contextualize this death, the deaths of the sixteen other people who have died in ICE custody in 2026, and the criminalization of migration? 🧵

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On April 12, 2026, Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt died in ICE custody. How can we use the works of MiSC scholars such as @austinkocher.com to contextualize this death, the deaths of the sixteen other people who have died in ICE custody in 2026, and the criminalization of migration? 🧵

This March, MiSC scholar A. Naomi Paik (@naomipaik.bsky.social) published "Sanctuary for None: Conservation, Migration, and Border Violence in the Sonoran Desert." What does Paik teach us about the links between land conservation and the antimigrant violence?🧵 read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...

At the same time, border patrol efforts also scar the desert. Border wall construction requires new roads to be built. "Security" efforts necessitate the use of bulldozers and explosives to clear the land, destroying trees, cacti, animals, and water sources.

This March, MiSC scholar A. Naomi Paik (@naomipaik.bsky.social) published "Sanctuary for None: Conservation, Migration, and Border Violence in the Sonoran Desert." What does Paik teach us about the links between land conservation and the antimigrant violence?🧵 read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...

Despite deterrence efforts, migrants continue to cross through the Sonoran Desert. In doing so, they pollute the dessert. Migrants carve new paths to avoid detection from border patrol agents. They discard unnecessary objects that might slow them down such as old food containers.

This March, MiSC scholar A. Naomi Paik (@naomipaik.bsky.social) published "Sanctuary for None: Conservation, Migration, and Border Violence in the Sonoran Desert." What does Paik teach us about the links between land conservation and the antimigrant violence?🧵 read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...

The US government has also weaponized the desert's hostile terrain. While reinforcing other border-crossing locations, the US allows migrants to cross into the US through the Sonoran Desert, knowing that the extreme temperatures and aridity will kill most crossers in the process.

This March, MiSC scholar A. Naomi Paik (@naomipaik.bsky.social) published "Sanctuary for None: Conservation, Migration, and Border Violence in the Sonoran Desert." What does Paik teach us about the links between land conservation and the antimigrant violence?🧵 read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...

The Sonoran Desert has taken on multiple meanings for the US state. Starting in 1941, the US began using the land for military training. They treated the dessert as a "sacrifice zone." The seemingly "vacant land" was polluted by the US state, exchanging the health of the land for national projects.

Between 1941 and 1946, over 50,000 Panamanians —most of them Black— were stripped of their birthright citizenship. It was the first constitutionally sanctioned denationalization in the Americas. Yet, almost no one talks about it. 🧵👇 thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...

✍️ Corinealdi shows these aren't coincidences. Racism, capitalism, militarization, and anti-immigration policy feed on silence about what came before. To document denationalization is to lift the veil. Read her full article here 👇 thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...

Between 1941 and 1946, over 50,000 Panamanians —most of them Black— were stripped of their birthright citizenship. It was the first constitutionally sanctioned denationalization in the Americas. Yet, almost no one talks about it. 🧵👇 thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...

The history was buried for multiple reasons ⤵️ 🟠 WWII drowned it out globally 🟠 Anti-Black and anti-Asian discrimination was the hemispheric norm 🟠 Once it ended, the prevailing consensus was to call it an aberration and move on.

Between 1941 and 1946, over 50,000 Panamanians —most of them Black— were stripped of their birthright citizenship. It was the first constitutionally sanctioned denationalization in the Americas. Yet, almost no one talks about it. 🧵👇 thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...

In 1941, Panamanians voted on a constitution that promised labor protections for some while revoking citizenship for others. Article 12 stripped birthright citizenship based on Blackness, Caribbean ancestry, and speaking languages like English, French, patwa, or creole.

Between 1941 and 1946, over 50,000 Panamanians —most of them Black— were stripped of their birthright citizenship. It was the first constitutionally sanctioned denationalization in the Americas. Yet, almost no one talks about it. 🧵👇 thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...

Historian & MiSC scholar Kaysha Corinealdi ( @kcorinealdi.bsky.social ) asks how this happened and why it fell into oblivion. Her answer in a recent @thefunambulist.bsky.social article cuts to the heart of how we choose what to forget, when we choose to remember, and what that costs us today.